“Social power matters, and attention needs to be given to lessening the inequities. The good news is that our research found that social solidarity and trust also matter, so the focus of social mobilization efforts should be on not only improving the formal system’s functionality, but also on sharing information better among different groups and […]
Read More2020 participants of the J. Paul Riley Student Paper Competition sponsored by the Utah Chapter of the American Water Resources Association. As conferences across Utah and the U.S. are cancelled due to Coronavirus, 13 students from two Utah universities went online to present their water research and compete for cash prizes in the 15th annual […]
Read MoreU Researchers Use Systems Dynamics Modeling to Help Korea’s Rural Research Institute Plan for Resiliency For agricultural water managers, climate change means increased demand, supply hurdles, risk of extreme weather damage and greater potential for contamination. All are issues that weigh heavy on the minds of those in charge of ensuring delivery of the […]
Read MoreNayyab Agha, a student at Mehran University for Engineering and Technology studied at the U as part of the USPCASW Summer 2019 Entrepreneurship Exchange. In its second year, the special 6-week session builds upon the engineering skills of participants by introducing business planning, finance principles, marketing concepts and prototyping skills. We asked her about her […]
Read MoreThe U Water Center is happy to welcome Seth Arens as an affiliated scientist. Arens’ arrival fosters a partnership between the Center and Western Water Assessment, with whom Arens has worked as a research scientist since 2015. Western Water Assessment (WWA) is a University of Colorado Boulder-based, applied research program that addresses societal vulnerabilities to […]
Read MoreWednesday, August 7, 2019 4 p.m. S.J. Quinney College of Law 6500 (Flynn Room) 383 S. University St., Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Enjoy delicious refreshments and a pitch-style showcase of water innovations presented by USPCASW Exchange scholars. Network with researchers and practitioners working on globally-relevant water problems. Students will present research on: Point-of-use purification […]
Read MoreThe Spring U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water Exchange scholars took to the desert in May—exploring Moab, hiking in Arches National Park and camping at Bonderman Field Station at Rio Mesa. The students met with local experts to better understand water issues in the Colorado River Basin. They were also introduced to the writing […]
Read More“It is time to get past the talking, and onto the doing.” This one simple sentence summarizes the life’s work of Dr. M. Aslam Chaudhry. For a quarter century Dr. Chaudhry worked on the front lines of international sustainable development for the United Nations. His posts read like a map of the world’s crisis zones […]
Read MoreBeyond a largely arid landscape whose agriculture and livelihood depends on the runoff of high mountains, the Colorado and Indus River basins are also faced with similar mounting problems of over allocation, salinization caused by irrigation, mounting conflicts over water rights, and the rising specter of climate change. University of Utah professor Dan McCool recently […]
Read MoreThis last December more than 800 scientist, policy makers, lawyers, academics, and activists assembled in Islamabad, Pakistan, for the first annual International Science-Policy Climate Change Conference. The event was organized by Pakistan’s leading climate change research center, the Global Change Impact Studies Centre (GCISC), and was the brainchild of University of Utah professor Tariq Banuri. […]
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